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warm weather and in various auditoriums dur-
ing the winter. In addition, the band will be at
the service of commercial organizations wishing
to provide entertainment for out of town dele-
gates to conventions, etc., and in view of the many
transient visitors stopping at the many hotels
along the lake front special concerts will be given
in Grant Park facing those hotels. The real work
of musical uplift will, however, be carried on in
the settlement districts, where it is planned to so
arrange the programs that audiences will be able
to cultivate a better understanding of what con-
stitutes good music. If the Chicago Band proves
a real success it will go on concert tours through
the United States and other countries with a view
of keeping the name of Chicago before the people
everywhere. Strong efforts are being made through
the medium of circulars to secure new members
for the association, the membership fee being $10
per year. At the present time the membership is
steadily on the increase.
MUSIC TRADE
41
REVIEW
in sales. We are preparing for a big business,
but as J have already noted, dealers should fill
their requisitions now; we'll do the rest."
each bow will continue the note the previous DOW
is playing before the previous bow leaves the
string to make its quick return stroke. A key-
board is provided for pressing mechanical lingers
GOOD WORK FOF^LYON & HEALY.
Mr. Sombalino Who Covers the Eastern Ter-
ritory Is Closing a Number of Important Ac-
counts for His House.
ACTIVITY WITH HOHNER.
M. Hohner, 11N East Sixteenth street, reports
business as highly satisfactory. Dealers are com-
mencing to send in their fall orders, and this has
' Since W. A. Sambalino lias covered the eastern
stimulated business materially. William J. Hauss-
territory, with headquarters in New York, for ler was also pleased to note that dealers were
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, he has not only done a
not slow to appreciate a good thing when they saw
good business for his firm in Mira music boxes, it, viz., their No. (i(J0 revolving harmonica display
for which they represent Mennod Freres, the
cabinet. On this novelty they are away behind
manufacturers, St. Croix, Switzerland, but in the on their orders.
general line of small goods. Mr. Sambalino has
opened important accounts with several large de-
EXCELLENT LINE OF PIANO SCARFS.
partment stores, but with music houses as well.
Kaffenberger & Cantor, the prominent piano
The subject of these remarks is said to have booked
stool and scarf house, have now completed their
business in the East which Lyon & Healy had
full new line of piano scarfs for the fall trade,
never had before. In speaking of Mr. Sambalino
which is now on display at their show rooms, West
one who knows said to The Review the other day :
Eighteenth street. New York. Being specialists in
TIME TO ORDER IS NOW.
"He is a born salesman, and one of the most ef-
the matter of piano scarfs, this house claims that
ficient
men
I
ever
knew.
He
can
sell
anything.
Buegeleisen & Jacobson Receiving Indications
I had a Milwaukee dealer in to see me recently they have the most extensive line of those goods
of an Early Opening of Business—Some
of any house in the trade. The handsome series
and
he said Sambal no must have hypnotized him,
Advice on the Wisdom of Ordering Eariy.
as he sold him a bill of goods that he had no use of designs in a great range of fabrics embracing
for whatever, and he was a wideawake man at silks and cottons make a most attractive showing,
Sam Buegeleisen, of Buegeleisen & Jacobson. in
especially the silks, wliich include a large variety
chatting about fall business said that thus far it that."
of hand-painted and embroidered designs. The
had opened up very strong, and he anticipates a
A MECHANICAL VIOLIN.
new line is original throughout and is the largest
good season. He based this conclusion on the
ever shown bv (his house.
size of mail orders, an unfailing trade barometer.
An instrument in the general form of a piano,
The deaiers, he added, only recently bought from but seeking to secure the effect of a violin, is
OPTIMISTIC AT MEISEL'S.
hand to mouth, i.e., a small order every week to sought in a patent, Xo. 990,(514, to Andrew M.
fill absolute needs. "To-day,"' said Mr. Buegel- CarJsen, of St. Paul, Minn. He provides in con-
A. Meisel, of C. Meisel, 8 St. Marks place, when
eisen, "we are receiving larger orders, which proves nection with a stringed instrument like a violin
seen by The Review this week, reported that orders
a general revival has set in and that our customers two bows near each other upon the same string.
were coming in in increased volume since August
intend not to be caught short of stock when the These bows are reciprocated in contact with the
1st. and that this augured well for an active fall. The
fall season opens. Many dealers have been over
string slowly at the same speed in one direction
demand for small goods is exceptionally strong and
conservative and by letting their stock get low and for a part of the stroke simultaneously and
there is every indication that business will improve
are now begging for certain imported goods that are given a more rapid return movement. Dur-
from now on. There is a better feeling among the
cannot be supplied on a day's notice. Dealers will
irg the slow movement in contact with the string,
dcakrs covering a wide territory, and the majority
be wise if they place orders early; if they pro- the bows are applied to the string partly one at a report despite the general summer lull their aggre-
crastinate they will be disappointed and suffer l:iss time and partly both at the same time, so that
gate sales exceeds a year ago by 2 ' *> per cent.
Bell Brand Harmonicas
" Made in America
Have won a national reputation because of their remarkable and durable
qualities. They are not the best merely because they are American made,
and the only harmonicas made in this country, but they stand competition
with the products of the world, embodying the very best musical qualities
and workmanship.
BELL BRAND HARMONICAS
CAN BE PROCURED FROM THE FOLLOWING WHOLESALE HOUSES:
C. BRUNO & SON, New York, N. Y.
BUEGELEISEN & JACOBSON, New York City, N. Y.
OLIVER DITSON CO., Boston, Mas*.
C. H. DITSON & CO., New York City, N. Y.
W. J. DYER & BRO., St. Paul, Minn.
J. W. JENKINS SONS' MUSIC CO., Kansas City, Mo.
THE RUDOLPH WURLITZER CO., Cincinnati, O.
ROBT. C. KRETSCHMAR, Philadelphia, Pa.
KOERBER-BRENNER MUSIC CO., St. Louis, Mo.
LYON & HEALY, Chicago, 111.
C. MEISEL, New York City, N. Y.
SHERMAN, CLAY & CO., San Francisco, Cal.
JOS. W. STERN & CO., New York City, N. Y.
TONK BROS. CO., Chicago, 111.
THE RUDOLPH WURLITZER CO., Chicago, 111.
The National Musical String Co.,
New BrunswicK
New
Jersey